The Board has remanded the Veteran's claims for service connection due to insufficient opinions regarding the nature and etiology of his claimed conditions, particularly his head injury and skin disorder. The case is returned for further development.
The deciding factor: Insufficient medical opinions were provided in previous VA examinations that did not address all aspects required by the Board’s remand directives.
- Claimed conditions
- residuals of a head injury (including headaches), skin disorder (claimed as jungle rot)
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating
- Not verified here — check the original decision
- Decision date
- June 16, 2020
- Citation
- 20040744
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What this means for you
A remand sends an issue back for more development, often a new examination or missing records. It does not award the benefit or decide the final outcome. The original decision explains the additional work ordered.
What you can do next
Use your own notice and decision stage. A remanded issue is not a final court-appealable denial. VA review guidance and CAVC filing instructions (U.S. federal; reviewed October 7, 2026).
Related decisions
Other Board decisions on a similar condition or argued the same way.
- Whole decision: Partly granted
The Veteran's claims of service connection for a skin disorder (claimed as jungle rot) and frostbite bilateral legs have been reopened due to the submission of new and material evidence. However, the Board cannot determine whether these conditions are related to his military service based on the current evidence.
- Whole decision: Denied
The Board has determined that the veteran's current right ear hearing loss and residuals of a head injury, to include headaches, are not related to his active service. The evidence does not support granting service connection for these conditions.
- Whole decision: Partly granted
The Board denied service connection for a deviated septum, residuals of a head injury (including headaches), psychiatric disability, fatigue, sleep impairment, hair loss, muscle and joint pain, and skin disability. The veteran was also denied the opportunity to reopen his claim for a deviated septum but allowed him to reopen his claim for residuals of a head injury.
- Whole decision: Dismissed
The veteran has withdrawn his appeal, and the Board is dismissing the issues due to this withdrawal.
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